U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A.
Dates
Time Period
2018
Publication Date
2018-10-17
Citation
Lund, K., McAleer, R.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., Cosca, M.A., and Kunk, M.J., 2018, U-Pb SHRIMP and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data and backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of sample materials for study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F872I5.
Summary
These data are for a multidisciplinary study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. Results of the study are described and interpreted in Lund and others (2018). Data included are U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology for quartz porphyry dikes, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for biotite, hornblende, and K-feldspar from Butte granite country rock, and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for white mica and K-feldspar from alteration zones around lode veins. Also included are backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of minerals from samples dated by 40Ar/39Ar. These data are shared to meet open data requirements for interpretive report: Lund, K., McAleer, R.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., Cosca, M.A., [...]
Summary
These data are for a multidisciplinary study of dikes, country rock, and alteration systems, Butte, U.S.A. Results of the study are described and interpreted in Lund and others (2018). Data included are U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology for quartz porphyry dikes, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for biotite, hornblende, and K-feldspar from Butte granite country rock, and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data for white mica and K-feldspar from alteration zones around lode veins. Also included are backscatter electron (BSE) and panchromatic cathodoluminescent (CL) imagery of minerals from samples dated by 40Ar/39Ar. These data are shared to meet open data requirements for interpretive report:
Lund, K., McAleer, R.J., Aleinikoff, J.N., Cosca, M.A., and Kunk, M.J., 2018, Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: new 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of discrete Ag-Au-polymetallic lodes overprinted by Cu-lode and stockwork Cu-Mo ore systems: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 102, p. 666-700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.018
The study provides age data to test ore-deposit models for relations between stockwork Cu-Mo and Ag-Zn-Cu lodes at Butte, Montana, by undertaking a comprehensive district-wide, SHRIMP U-Pb study of dike emplacement ages combined with 40Ar/39Ar study of host rock cooling and reheating as well as 40Ar/39Ar study of muscovite in alteration adjacent to lodes.
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Bell headframe, Berkeley pit, along Antimony Street to Anselmo headframe